Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy memorial day. To all the veterans and active duty military, my thanks! We appreciate everything you do, even if there are times we forget to say it. And also, to the military families, thank you. I think war is even harder on the families than on the soliders…and they hardly ever get thanks… I was a military wife once, and I remember how difficult it was. I also have many friends that have children, and who’s husbands are abroad…I know how hard it is. So a special thanks to all the spouses, and moms, and dads, and brothers, and sisters, and grandparents, and kids of the military…my heart goes out to you.

So, I’ve spent the weekend cleaning house and organizing and getting ready to start my den/trophy room remodel, so I’m offically exhausted! But there was an article I read a week or so ago, and I think that everyone needs to read it, and boom bard the STUPID school board with letters, phone calls and emails. How heartless this world has become. The article is below…

Dad calls from Iraq, son gets suspended

byRoger Sinasohn

Master Sgt. Morris Hill is serving his country in Iraq, a long way away from his beloved sons back in Texas. Luckily, these days, we have the means for people on opposite sides of the planet to talk to each other in real time, almost without regard to where they actually are. We have cell phones.

Unfortunately, the only time Hill could call his son Brandon was during the school day — a time when students are generally forbidden from using their cell phones. It would seem, however, that this situation would count as extraordinary circumstances and an exception could be made, but administrators disagree. Brandon was suspended for taking the call.

“He called me during class, because that’s the only time that he could,” Brandon said. “I answered the call as I was walking out of class. The teacher followed me out and said, ‘Oh what are you doing?’ I said my dad was calling from Iraq, and I know he needs to talk to me.” Brandon was sent to the office and given a two-day suspension.

The odd part is that the father had apparently made an arrangement in advance with the assistant principal to allow his sons to receive calls from him. “He had spoken with Mr. Fletcher,” said Pat Hill, the boys’ mother. “He thought there was an agreement understood that if he called either Joshua or Brandon at school, that everything was fine.”

“If this would have been the last phone call from my husband, and he’s in trouble for it and then has to deal with something happening to his dad that would be even harder,” Mrs. Hill added. “These schools have to stop and realize, especially when you are in a military community, we support our soldiers, we support our troops. What about them when they are in Iraq trying to reach their family?”

Mrs. Hill is trying to get the suspension removed from her son’s record, but the school says the matter is closed. Whether or not you support the United States’ actions overseas, you’ve got to understand that the soldiers are doing their job and that they and their families are still people — people who care very much about each other and have a need to stay in contact. It seems to me that the school could be more understanding on that point.

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The school board that’s responsible for this is Copperas Cove in Texas their information is below. Whether or not you agree with the war, I really hope you agree that in this case, the School Board is wrong!